Talk:Invesco PowerShares

Please fix this article
Wikipedia is not an advertising medium for a company or product or service; clearly this article appears to be an advertisement. This is a huge disservice to everybody, including the writers of this article, since it risks turning an encyclopedia into one giant billboard. Wikipedia is great because we do not have to slog through advertisements to get to good information, generally, and this is true for the writers of PowerShares too. Please see WP:ARTSPAM. Next, almost all of the "sources" listed are bogus; please see reliable sources. Please trim this article, or write it in a neutral fashion, soon, otherwise it will either be proposed for deletion or trimmed substantially. Every line, ideally, should have a valid reference as per WP:VERIFY; if not, it should be deleted.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Topic is actually pretty notable. That was why I started the page. These are big time financial instruments now and the page will survive an Afd I think. But I had even forgotten about this page until today when the spam started. I will touch it up in a few days. History2007 (talk) 15:24, 12 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok. Apparently other users with possible COI concerns, and who did not understand how Wikipedia works, added much spammish content to the page, but it has been taken care of.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:26, 12 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, it was spam, but the topic needs more than the few lines I wrote over a year ago. I had just forgotten all about it. Will touch it up with a few more sentences - no big deal I think. History2007 (talk) 15:27, 12 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Anyway, I added a couple of refs and mentioned commodities, oil, etc. but I think that is enough. It was necessary to say that these are vehicles that allow investment in commodities without going through the usual commodities markets, but any more will begin to read like a product handout. I do not suggest any other additions unless in the future a brief comparison with other items is included. History2007 (talk) 06:47, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, I had a few questions in regards to the editing of this article. Being familiar with the company, I feel some more key details could be added. Would it be possible to discuss these with whoever is currently editing? I was wondering if this page could be worked on to eventually look like State Street Corporation ? A more detailed info box as well as a logo picture would be reasonable additions.  174.253.3.63 (talk) 14:19, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello! There are several editors, including myself, that would be more than happy to improve the article. What is your connection to the company?  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  14:22, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, fine, I am going to leave this to you and Tom, given that he is doing fine with it as well. I will not watch the page now. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 14:24, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * first of all, is there any way to change the name of the page to Invesco PowerShares? That is the official title of the company. Also additional facts about products....currently there is a pretty narrow product overview. Any chance a logo picture can be added in the info box? Correct spelling of company should be PowerShares (the s is capitalized).  Info box could be expanded to include founder, number of employees, etc 174.253.3.63 (talk) 14:48, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Do you have a connection to the company? I'd be more than happy to help, whether or not you have a connection, but I'd rather not pretend there's no do work for a company under the guise that you're just interested in the company.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  14:52, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * currently a college student. Grew up in Wheaton, IL where PowerShares is obviously prevalent. I recently did a research project on the company, and after seeing the poor condition of the PowerShares page, I made note to return and improve the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.253.3.63 (talk) 15:08, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Sounds good. Let's get to work! I'll start making changes immediately.  Ol Yeller21 Talktome  15:25, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * If people are unfamiliar with Wikipedia's ways, it may be a good idea to get an overview of the process. There are rules and procedures and customs. There is a learning curve. Here is a good overview.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:27, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I think walking a new user through changes is a better way to teach than to lecture or throw massive amounts of guidelines and policies at them. If that's how they chose to learn, the welcome template I left on their talk page will work great.
 * 174.253.3.63, do you have any references that can be used to populate the infobox? If we can find an article or two about the founding of the company, size of the company, and products it provides, that would be a great start.  Anything that is independently published (i.e. not the company's website) would be great.  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  16:45, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I use search strings of major sources. Problem is, "PowerShares" comes up quite a bit in articles not about the company, but how its funds are doing. And quite a few press releases too. So, one way to approach it is to use "PowerShares is" (in quotes) or "PowerShares has" or "PowerShares (some other verb here)" or maybe "PowerShares spokesperson" or some other combination, as a way to avoid the non-references. Combine it with a string like this one: "PowerShares has" (site:wsj.com OR site:nytimes.com OR site:boston.com OR site:miamiherald.com OR site:post-gazette.com OR site:chicagotribune.com OR site:suntimes.com OR site:latimes.com OR site:sfexaminer.com OR site:oregonian.com OR site:usatoday.com OR site:time.com OR site:washingtonpost.com OR site:nysun.com OR site:cbsnews.com OR site:npr.org OR site:guardian.co.uk OR site:nj.com OR site:thestar.com OR site:usnews.com OR site:slate.com OR site:newsweek.com OR site:cnn.com OR site:thenation.com OR site:newyorker.com). Cut and paste the whole string in to your browser search bar.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:50, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I have some pretty decent articles. I'm compiling some info and I will be adding it soon. Thanks 174.238.197.88 (talk) 15:27, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Unclear relation between terms Invesco, PowerShares and QQQ in lead
The lead is somewhat confusing. It starts by defining its topic as Invesco PowerShares, a company. Then it says it is part (a subsidiary?) of Invesco, and mentions "PowerShares product", without explaining what is it. The rest of the lead then proceeds to discuss "PowerShares". It seems that most of the lead is therefore not discussing the "Invesco PowerShares" but some poorly defined product/service of the company. I will also note that Powershares currently redirects here from QQQ (disambiguation), where it is defined as "Powershares (stock ticker symbol), a NASDAQ-100 exchange traded fund". QQQ fund is again confusingly discussed in lead, and mentioned in the body only under "Selected funds" as part of a list. Overall, I find this article confusing and I am tagging it as such. (The company appears notable, and so may be the fund). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:41, 19 June 2016 (UTC)